A scar across the stomach. A shuttered loom. A promise of money that never came. In Tamil Nadu’s Namakkal district, the decline of the textile industry pushed workers into selling their kidneys.

From neighbourhoods where kidney sales are common knowledge to a woman taken to Singapore to donate in secrecy, our reporting traces stories of desperation fuelled by a debt trap.

Watch our video report here.

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